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3/12/2017

Ukrainian Evaluation Association started to implement a social project «Strengthening decentralization in Ukraine»

The Ukrainian Evaluation Association will to improve government
transparency and increase citizen participation in the implementation of
decentralization reforms. The project is implemented by a grant from the
National Endowment for Democracy (USA). Project Manager is Larisa Pylgun, a Board
member of Ukrainian evaluation association (e-mail pylgunlv@gmail.com).

The Kyiv-based Association will assess strategic development programs on
the central, regional, and community levels, and provide recommendations to
ensure adequate public involvement in monitoring the progress of their
implementation. It will produce several comprehensive reports and legislative
projects and share them with the government.

The Association will conduct similar assessments on the central level,
analyzing the national Strategy For Sustainable Development Ukraine 2020 and
sectoral development programs, as well as the monitoring and evaluation
methodology approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, to determine whether
provisions regulating performance monitoring and evaluation include measures to
prevent corruption and ensure citizen participation in the processes. The
Association will prepare its findings and recommendations, and share them with
the appropriate government agencies, including the Ministry of Regional
Development.

To improve government transparency and increase citizen participation in
a key reform process, the Association and its NGO partners throughout Ukraine
will assess the strategic development programs of all regions and Kyiv, as well
as analyze the municipal development programs of 24 amalgamated communities
throughout Ukraine. To ensure the diversity of the targeted communities, the
Association will select them via specific criteria, including geography, type
of settlement, and quality of local government. In the analyses, the
Association will pay special attention to provisions related to public
involvement in monitoring and evaluation. Following the assessment, the Association
will summarize the results for each region and community, and publish them on
its website.

The Association
will conduct a two-day training for state employees, local authorities, and
civil society activists from different regions, selected through a call for
proposals. The training will cover topics such as monitoring and evaluation,
international experiences in monitoring government reform, and interaction
between the authorities and civil society, among others.

Following the
training, the Association will continue to provide consultations to the
participants who, over the following six months, will lead monitoring and
evaluation initiatives in at least 12 regions. With the guidance of the
Association’s experts, groups made up of activists and local government
representatives will prepare reports, and share them with authorities.

The Association also will publish a comprehensive report on the results
of all assessment initiatives on the national, regional, and community levels,
and publish it on its website. The report will include specific recommendations
for improving government monitoring and evaluation techniques at all government
levels. Based on the findings, the Association will also draft legislative
proposals (e.g., amendments to Law on State Regional Policy, Law on Local
Government, and Law on Administrative Services) and submit them to the
Parliament.

Finally, the Association will prepare an
instructional brochure on teaching monitoring and evaluation techniques for
various levels of the Ukrainian government and distribute it among relevant
stakeholders. The brochure will also be available on the Association’s website.